Word: ported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City of Chicago has at no time called at either Siberian or Chinese ports . . . This vessel, in the course of her last voyage, loaded a cargo of lumber at Otaru, Hokkaido, North Japan, for London and it may be that it was during her passage either to or from this port that the aeroplane sighted this vessel...
...tows his prize into a remarkably primitive Canadian port (though it has electricity, there is no communication with the outside world), where he and the natives briskly dispose of several dozen heavily armed Nazis, blow up the schooner and a brace of submarines. In the story of a war which seems almost nostalgically simple these days, Claude Rains is selfconsciously Prussian as the head villain and Carla Balenda does her best to look decorative as the unnecessary heroine...
...Which gave Russia the southern part of Sakhalin Island and all the Kuriles, plus control of Port Arthur and Dairen and of the strategically invaluable railroad across Manchuria...
...centuries, Haiti has been all but barren of art, but today it burgeons with earnest and wonderfully original painters. Their greatest accomplishment: the embellishing of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral at Port-au-Prince with murals, some of which are reproduced on the opposite page...
...sail the seas until he can find a woman willing to die for him. Omar Khayyam's moving finger, worked to the bone by Scripter Lewin, brings the two together during the brief interval (once every seven years) in which Mason's curse permits him to make port...